3.1 Analysis of the Macroscale Variation in Epicenter Communication Big Data
After an earthquake, communication occurs in regard to asking for help or calling relatives and friends. In a nondestructive earthquake, under the premise that the base stations work normally, the overall communication volume and activity in an earthquake-stricken area could certainly continue to increase dramatically, resulting in a phenomenon with many mobile phone turn-ons, sleeps, and activations (Rumelhart DE et al. 1986, Sandholt PE et al. 1998). The closer to the epicenter, the greater the deviation between the trend of the actual mobile phone-based population data and the historical mobile phone-based population data in the affected area is, especially for late night and early morning earthquakes. For example, in the early morning of July 12, 2021, a M5.1 earthquake occurred in Tangshan, Hebei Province. After the earthquake, the number of active mobile internet users in Guye District, Tangshan, which is near the epicenter, increased significantly, while the number of mobile terminals near the macroepicenter increased by 12% within 30 minutes.
First, the intensity distribution of the Hualien earthquake is calculated. Due to the lack of intensity attenuation data in Taiwan, only the theoretical intensity distribution in eastern China is obtained according to the seismic intensity attenuation model, as shown in Figure 1.
Ia = 5.253 + 1.398M - 4.164lg(R + 26) σ = 0.632 (8)
Ib = 2.019 + 1.398M - 2.943lg(R + 8) σ = 0.632 (9)
where R is the length of the long axis, I is the intensity, M is the magnitude, and σ is an adjustment parameter.
Figure 2 shows that, macroscopically, the overall changes in human responses are in a discrete state but that the number of active terminals increases significantly in Fuzhou and Putian, which are close to the epicenter, and that the number of active terminals in Ningde and Xiamen, which are far from the epicenter, also increases relatively significantly. In inland areas outside the 3-degree circle, only the number of terminals in urban areas increases to a certain extent. The overall trend shows that in the coastal areas relatively close to the epicenter, the terminal volume increases significantly and changes greatly within cities. In the city, the ground is mostly soil layers and deep bedrock, and there are many high-rise buildings, so a variety of factors interact with each other to amplify the effect of the earthquake. Overall, the change in the terminal density value is obvious and is within the 3-degree circle, but Wenzhou is special, being outside the 3-degree circle, but the number of terminals also increases significantly. The intensity attenuation model used is the point model, and the linear model is more reasonable for earthquakes above M≥6, which can explain the phenomenon of strong seismic sensation in Wenzhou, as shown in Figure 3 and Table 1.
Table.1 Changes of macro scale overall communication report data
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Putian
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Fuzhou
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Ningde
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Xiamen
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Quanzhou
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Wenzhou
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Sanming
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Nanping
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Increased by 10 minutes before the earthquake(%)
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3.19
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3.06
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2.66
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2.37
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2.64
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2.35
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1.83
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1.75
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Increase at the same time as the previous day(%)
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3.92
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3.89
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3.69
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3.09
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3.37
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3.01
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2.45
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2.37
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The time series changes of mobile phone location data in typical areas of Wenzhou and Xiamen are compared, and the curves of the time series changes of the reported location (Figures 4 and 5) are plotted. After the earthquake, the mobile phone location data increases suddenly with the occurrence of the earthquake. In Xiamen, the duration is long, and until 22:50, the curve starts to return to that of the previous day. In Wenzhou, there is a sudden increase, but the duration is short, and there is almost no increase at approximately 22:30. An interesting phenomenon is observed; that is, at approximately 23:30, for these two cities, the changes in mobile phone location data on the same day are greater than the daily changes, which indicates that some people are still paying attention to the earthquake 1 hour after the earthquake.
3.2 Analysis of the Vertical Spatial Variation in the Population in Building Blocks
Study area 1 (east of the Siming District, Xiamen) and area 2 (north of Longgang city, Wenzhou) containing high-rise buildings are selected (Figures 6 and 7). Because GeoHash 6 data are not accurate enough to reflect the flow of people indoors and outdoors, GeoHash 8 data with a higher accuracy are used. Similarly, Equation 7 is used to calculate the grid density difference in two periods, and the results are shown in Figure 3. People gather in the two study areas. Xiamen is within the 3-degree circle obtained by the theoretical model, while Wenzhou is in an area with an intensity less than 3 degrees according to the model. After the earthquake, some residents move from indoors to outdoor open places, showing disaster avoidance behavior, and the outflow of the population in high-rise buildings is relatively obvious. In the horizontal dimension, many people move out of the core area of the residential area, and crowds gather near the main entrances and exits, the internal roads, and the squares of the community. However, people do not gather at the main traffic lines, especially the city squares and parks relatively far from the residential area, indicating that the residents respond to the earthquake but soon calm down. In the vertical dimension, the population density of high-rise buildings is drastically changed. After a period, most people return indoors, ending their disaster avoidance behavior. The postearthquake disaster avoidance behavior of the population in high-rise buildings is the focus of this study (Akason et al. 2006, Becker et al. 2017).
A high-rise building can be simplified as a vertical cantilever structure. A vertical load mainly produces an axial force in the structure that is roughly linear with the height of the building, and the horizontal load produces a bending moment in the structure (Grasso S et al. 2005). According to the mechanical characteristics, the direction of the vertical load remains unchanged, and only the load increases with increasing building height; the horizontal load can come from many directions, and the force due to lateral deformation increases with increasing height. In high-rise structures, the influence of the horizontal load is much greater than that of vertical load. The impact of the Taiwan earthquake on the southeast coast of the mainland is mainly horizontal displacement produced a far-field earthquake; an additional purpose of this paper is to study the impact of a far-field Taiwan earthquake on the horizontal displacement of high-rise buildings (Freire S. 2010, Erdik M et al. 2011). In the typical areas of Wenzhou and Xiamen, 335 typical buildings with a height of 3-168 m are selected. The change in the population density in buildings below 12 m is not obvious, but obvious changes in population density in buildings between 12 m and 48 m are found. In high-rise buildings with a height of approximately 100 m in Wenzhou and Xiamen, the changes are very close; those in Wenzhou are only slightly smaller. This phenomenon is closely related to the point impact field and linear impact field, as shown in Table 2. In addition, Wenzhou is in an estuarine alluvial plain, with a thick soil layer, so the amplification effect of strong ground motion caused by the soil layer is obvious. However, the buried depth of the soil layer in typical area in Xiamen is shallow, and the ground conditions are good, so the amplification effect is relatively small, as shown in Figures 8 and 9.
Table 2 Comparison of personnel response under buildings of different heights in typical areas of Wenzhou (study area 1)
Height (m)
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3
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6
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9
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12
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15
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18
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21
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105
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Number of individual buildings
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93
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35
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10
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3
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9
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8
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11
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2
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Number of changes(%)
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0.21
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0.43
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0.61
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0.79
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1.13
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1.45
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1.76
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8.44
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Table 3 Comparison of personnel response under buildings of different heights in typical areas of Xiamen (study area 2)
Height (m)
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6
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9-12
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18
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24-36
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42-48
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108
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156
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168
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Number of individual buildings
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8
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59
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16
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41
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29
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1
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2
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3
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Number of changes(%)
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0.51
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0.66
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1.91
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3.81
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5.05
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9.04
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15.84
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18.73
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To study the amplification relationship and pattern of different ground conditions and structures with different heights on ground motion, typical building groups that can fully reflect the regional characteristics are selected for analysis, including 8 high-rise and super high-rise buildings above 100 meters. The analysis results show that for high-rise buildings on hard soil (Xiamen), as the height of the building increases, the sensation of shaking gradually increases; and that for high-rise buildings on soft soil (Wenzhou), the gradual strengthening trend of earthquake sensation is more significant, and the amplification effect of high-rise buildings is more intense (Zhang et al. 2016).
To discuss the macroperformance of the human response in high-rise buildings, the acceleration peak of these 335 high-rise buildings is calculated. According to the relationship between the sense by people on the ground and the peak acceleration of horizontal ground motion in the Chinese Seismic Intensity Scale, the following results are obtained: 1) On the soft soil (Wenzhou), the number of people experiencing a strong sensation in 20-meter buildings is approximately 2% more than that on the ground, and the number of people experiencing a strong sensation in 100-meter buildings is approximately 8% more than that on the ground. 2) Due to the lack of data for 150-meter buildings, according to the exponential model, the number of people experiencing a strong sensation is approximately 31% more than that on the ground. 3) On the hard soil (Xiamen), the number of people experiencing a strong sensation in 20-meter buildings is approximately 2% more than that on the ground, the number of people experiencing a strong sensation in 100-meter buildings is approximately 7.5% more than that on the ground, and the number of people experiencing a sensation feeling in 150-meter buildings is approximately 15% more than that on the ground. According to these correlations, when an earthquake occurs, people can reasonably estimate the magnitude of the earthquake by finding the corresponding sensation of people on the ground in the Chinese Seismic Intensity Scale to reduce the panic of people in high-rise buildings.
With the support of communication big data, the changes in human response with the floor height on both hard and soft soils are obtained, and enhanced exponential models are obtained.
Soft soil y = 0.5089e0.0289x (10)
Hard soil y = 1.0872e0.0186x (11)
where Y is the number of people affected and X is the building height. Because of the particularity, this model is applicable only to the impact of Taiwan far-field earthquakes on the southeastern coast of the mainland.